Tandoori Chicken

This is prepared mild. Customers generally preferred this dish mild heat. Kids love it mild and upon special request we can also make it Medium to Hot, Hot or Extra hot.

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The chicken tandoori is a very popular item that can be served as an appetizer to snack on with drinks and cocktails or it can be served as a part of a whole meal.

Tandoori chicken can be ordered as a starter to munch on with a beer or a cocktail. It can also be ordered as part of a whole meal. The outer crust can be made crispy or tender and juicy according to preference of the customer. When the chicken is half done brushing a coat of our spicy sauce and then replacing the chicken into the oven until it is done can add extra spice. Please let us know your preference while ordering. This dish is usually ideal for group of 2 or more.

Dishes: Naan, Peas Pulav or any other pulav. It can also complement other dishes in a whole meal.

• Beer (w/spicy): Haward 5000
• Beer (w/mild): Flying Horse, King Fisher
• Wine: Rose
• Cocktail: Vodka
• Traditional: Any sweet lassi

Since it is more like barbeque chicken, it can be eaten with the hands.

The story of its origins lies with a man named Kundan Lal Gujral. He ran a restaurant called Moti Mahal in Peshawar before the partition of British India. Trying out new recipes to keep his patrons interested, Gujral tried cooking chicken in tandoors (clay ovens) used by locals until then only to cook naans (bread). Gujral was able to cook the tender chickens in these ovens making them succulent inside and crispy outside.After the partition in 1947, Punjab was partitioned with the Eastern portion joining India and western Pakistan. Peshawar became part of Pakistan and Gujral found himself one among many Hindu refugees fleeing the rioting and upheaval by moving to India. He moved his restaurant to Delhi in a place called Daryaganj

The Tandoori chicken at Moti Mahal impressed, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India so much that he made it a regular dish at official banquets. Visiting dignitaries that enjoyed Tandoori Chicken included American Presidents Richard Nixon and John Kennedy, Soviet leaders Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, the King of Nepal, and the Shah of Iran.

The fame of Tandoori Chicken led to many copycats like Chicken Tikka (and eventually the Indian dish popularized in Britain Chicken Tikka Masala), which is commonly found on menus in Indian restaurants all over the world.
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